Must see TV for tonight: Who Killed Kirsty MacColl? - a BBC4 documentary on possibly the best English singer-songwriter of all time. I’ve always been a huge fan and as long as I can locate the little bijou that is BBC4 amongst the sea of crap on my Sky digibox I shall be watching.
Published on September 24, 2004
Filed in TV
Six weeks into my new healthy regime and I’m already three inches smaller. I’m quite amazed at the amount of fat that’s been burned from my abused body. Mentored by my ex-boss, Andy, the combination of healthy eating, drinking lots of water and exercising lots has left me with a belt that’s too big to [...]
Published on September 22, 2004
Filed in Personal
I’ve been working out the complete redesign process of this site. It not only involves a visual overhaul to the front end GUI but to the inner workings behind the scenes and under the hood. I’ve now implemented something I’ve been working on for sometime - metadata. Whilst many believe that meta tags such as [...]
Published on September 21, 2004
Filed in Web design
In just seven years Ian Brown has managed to double the output he managed to release under the Stone Roses banner in ten. Granted none of his solo offerings have been as easily accessible and ‘poppy’ as his former band but he has nevertheless produced four musically unique and diverse long-players as well as a [...]
Published on September 20, 2004
Filed in Music
Whilst blogging tools like Movable Type, Blogger, Wordpress and Textpattern are exceedingly good for blogging, they all have their limitations. Notably, most do not do true content management. That is, none of them embrace XML as fully as they could. For example, link management, workflow and front-end editing are not utilised at all. The WYSIWYG [...]
Published on September 17, 2004
Filed in Web design
Having already enjoyed author (and accidental cult leader) Danny Wallace’s previous co-written book “Are you Dave Gorman“, I was eagerly anticipating his latest furore into the world of pulp fact. Join me is the true story of how Danny Wallace got bored and decided to create a “collective” in honour of his deceased relation. He [...]
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For our weekly visit to the flicks we decided a hard-hitting dose of reality would be just the ticket as the last ebbs of summer trickle away down the MK Xscape wind tunnel. Super size me is a documentary film in the same genre as Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine. Yet the guy presenting this [...]
Published on September 15, 2004
Filed in Film
I have been busying myself behind the scenes of this site, tinkering with the inner-workings in order to serve up semantically correct code as well as a greater user-experience that typifies my work on day to day projects here at the Open University. Indeed this site with it’s simplistic navigation and minimalist design somewhat betrays [...]
Published on September 14, 2004
Filed in Web design
Apparently I’m a Big thinker. This could suggest why it’s taking me so long to complete the new templates and design for this website. I’m getting there though! Modular code is definitely the way to tame Movable Type. Hopefully Textpattern will adopt a similar approach.
Published on September 13, 2004
Filed in Web design
In this guide I explain how to install the great new open-source content management system “Textpattern” onto a windows machine.
Published on September 7, 2004
Filed in Web design
Guy @collylogic sorry to hear that. My thoughts are with you and your family. Take it easy. #
This site is being redeveloped. Apologies if things don't look or act as you expect. I'm spending little bits of free time making some much needed changes.
GuyWeb is the personal website of Guy Carberry, a web designer based in Buckingham, England. He currently works full-time as a web designer for the Open University. He also undertakes interesting freelance projects where time allows. You can contact Guy by emailing Guy at this website's address.